Language:
French
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Le Débat; histoire, politique, société
Angaben zur Quelle:
131 (2004) 35-53
Keywords:
Jews Identity
;
Jews History 1945-
Abstract:
Traces French-Jewish relations from the emancipation to the present, emphasizing the historical connection between the Jews and national identity in France. The integration of the Jews into French society and their position as mediators between individualism and traditionalism revealed antisemitism, but did not cause it. The visibility of high Jewish government officials contributed to making the "Jewish question" a burning political issue, as shown by the Dreyfus Affair. Argues that a gap opened up between France and its Jews only in the 1930s, with Hitler's rise to power and the influx of Jewish refugees. The Shoah, in which France abandoned its Jews, was a political failure, from which France has not recovered. The Six-Day War in 1967 caused an irreversible crystallization around Israel, after which French and Jewish identities diverged, with the Jews engaged in self-affirmation and France in self-negation. Views the new antisemitism in France rather as failed Muslim integration and hostility toward Israeli politics. Recommends a return to the spirit of fellow citizenship as a way out of the impasse in French-Jewish relations.
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